As most of you know, i am an out and proud bisexual and a HUGE advocate for the right of all people to love whom they want, and for people to be safe and supported in their right to choose whom they want to be with and given the same exact rights as heterosexuals.

At the same time i am celebrating with millions of people around the world the legalization of gay marriage in Ireland (a HUGE victory!!!!), my friend Julia Scott just had a powerful article printed in the New York Times. Julia came to visit me while i lived in Belize and i told her about the struggle happening there like in much of the Caribbean and Central America for not only the rights of the LGBTQ community but also for the saftey of their very lives. She wrote an incredibly poignant article for the New York Times. Please read and share!!

Wow talk about being extremely socially ostracized...It breaks my heart that Caleb has to live in that manner. His house looks like a jail. I have discussed non-acceptance of the LGBTQ community with friends raised in the Caribbean. They stated they could not be open about their sexuality. But I had no idea it was this bad in some areas.
Criminalization of sodomy is a completely ridiculous law, and Julia made a significant point in her article, that heterosexual couples engage in it. So in this respect, Caleb is essentially fighting for every human's right to sexual freedom, not just for rights of the LGBTQ community.
And this:
"Homosexuals are still technically an explicit class of prohibited immigrants, along with prostitutes, 'any idiot,' the insane and 'any person who is deaf and dumb.'

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I could talk for hours about the atrocities of this sentence but I will just make one point here. There are PLENTY of "straight" men and women who engage in same sex behavior, and are just not open about it. I am quite certain that this happens in Belize too. So according to Belize's laws, all of these people are criminals. I will also stretch it to say that probably some of the very people who made those laws had engaged in same sex behavior at some point in their lives.
So people can we just stop with the bullshit??

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I have been considering Latin America as an optional place to drop my anchor for a very long time, and apparently I need to do more research. I definitely wouldn't be happy living in a place that I could not get married if I so chose, or couldn't even hold hands in public with the one I love. On the upside, Ireland is now an option for many of us!!

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Suzy

8/16/2015 06:55:03 am

Wow. Thanks for bringing all these points to light. I agree all should love freely as they choose. Continue to stand strong and move forward!

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Suzy

8/17/2015 09:25:59 am

I just read that article and cannot believe that Orozco is being treated that way and has to live like that.

I agree w Alyssia that many engage in the same type of sex they're pointing the finger about in the privacy of their bedrooms. The same way they should like their privacy, they should allow it fir Orozco and anyone else wanting it. This man is brave enough to take a chance with his life to have change occur....and he shouldn't have to. He should be loved, accepted, without a label. He should just be allowed to be anyway he wants to be...just as who he is...a person...our relative in the human race.

"probably some of the very people who made those laws had engaged in same sex behavior at some point in their lives" - A while ago i watched a History Channel show on "the history of sex" and one segment mentioned all the sexual things, positions, whatever that the Church and maybe laws had prohibited -- perhaps hundreds of years ago i don't remember the exact time-period -- but i thought: to do that, they must have (at the least) known about them all!